Dear Nadene, These look beautiful and I’d love to do them with my four yr old grandson, but really need to know what I’m doing ahead of time. When you first posted this I had to find out what was the farenheit equivalent to your 180 degrees C [356 degrees F]; but as I went through the article and comments on the original page by Carmen in BC, Canada
[ http://woodsidekitchen.blogspot.com/2010/11/clay-christmas-decorations.html ], ] I got confused. She says 175 degrees with no designation of C or F and to bake for an hour which is 6 times longer than you state [10 mins]. And 175 degrees F is not quite 80 degrees C. I’m in the US and while 10 mins at the higher temp. would be much faster, I don’t want to mess them up, either. Could you clarify? Thanks! All’s grace, Kay

@Kay, We work in in Celcius, but I would advise a warm oven rather than a hot oven and just peek and tap the clay as it bakes. It should be dry and hard. As my oven is an AGA (anthracite-burning) oven, I work rather “intuitively as the oven itself differs from side to side and top to bottom! Some of our pieces went a little brown when baked, which we covered with paint, but I’m sure an hour is too long. Rather go cool and slow, than hot and quick. Hope this helps!

Thanks Nadene… My oven goes in 5 degree [Farenheit] increments, so am going to try the 175 degrees F (warm, but not hot; our normal bake temps of 350 degrees F are very hot, since they are well above the boiling point of 212 degrees F), and just check them every 10 minutes or so. My grandson is on his way over, so I may be able to try this today! All’s grace, Kay

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